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illness, so that his connection with the Linnean Society lasted 

 les*s than seven months. 



Charles Nathaniel Peal was born and broui^htup in London. 

 Settling in Ealing in 1867, he became intimately associated with 

 several ardt nt microscopists then living there, particularly the 

 late Gr. D. Brown, M.E..C.S., F.L.S., and took up enthusiastically 

 the study of P.dyzoa and Diatotnacese, beginning also the forma- 

 tion of a general collection of invertebrate zoology, which in 

 course of time became very extensive. He was a Fellow of the 

 Koyal Microscopical Society, a Member of the Quekett Club, 

 and assisted in founding the Ealing Natural History and 

 Microscopical Club in 1877, on the lines of the last-named 

 association. He became its first Treasurer, and continued to 

 hold that post until his death, always taking ihe greatest interest 

 in its welfare. In 1888 he printed for private circulation 

 ' Polyzoa (Bryozoa) — Index to the Plates, Figures, and Descrip- 

 tions contained in the Quarterly Journal of Microscopical Science, 

 1853 to 1879 ; Monthly Microscopical Journal, 1869 to 1877 ; 

 and Journal and Transactions of the Royal Microscopical Society, 

 from the commencement to the end of 1887.' Of an extremely 

 generous nature, nothing gave him greater pleasure than to be 

 helping others, and his unobtrusive kindness will be long remem- 

 bered by a large circle of friends and acquaintances. He died 

 on i*nd Sept., 1898, at the age of 66. He was elected a Fellow 

 of the I^iunean Society on June 21, 1888. 



Sir "William Roberts, whose decease in his 70th year occurred 

 on Sunday, April 16th, at his London residence, 8 Manchester 

 Square, was a man much honoured and respected in the Medical 

 profession, which lie was ever wont to support, and in which 

 many who were devotees have been the better by his sound 

 judgment and knowledge of men and affjiirs. He was born 

 in Anglesey in 1830, and educated at Mill Hill School and 

 University College, Londt n, where he came under the iniiuence 

 of Sharpey, Quain, and Erichsen. He graduated B.A. Lend, 

 in 1851, and in 1853 becau'e a Member of the E. College 

 (jf Surgeons, the M.B. and M.D. of London following in rapid 

 succession. He meanwhile studied on the Continent, and 

 on his return in 185-1 was appointed House-Surgeon to the 

 Manchester Infirmary, very soon to be made lull Physician to 

 the same Institution and Lecturer on Anatomy and Physiology 

 to the Eoyal School of Medicine, with which he remained 

 associated for some time after its union with the Owens College, 

 becoming in due course the fiist Professor of Medicine in 

 Victoria University. He was a Fellow of the E. College of 

 Physicians, and delivered in succession the Gulstonian and 

 Lumleian Lectures ; while in 1892 he delivered the Crooniau 

 Lecture before the Royal Society. These lectures, embodying 

 the accumulated observations of years, rich in both their experi- 

 mental and philosophic aspects and in their applicability to the 



